Revisioning Gender

by Ferree, Myra Marx; Lorber, Judith; Hess, Beth B.

• ISBN13: 9780761906179
• ISBN10: 0761906177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-02
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

This comprehensive handbook summarizes the state of gender studies, by examining the crucial research of the past decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. The book is an important step towards constructing a new analytical framework approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries. The contributors illustrate how the use of gender by scholars in various and overlapping fields of study has helped alter concepts and research designs

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction	xi	(4)
Introduction	xv
I. RECONCEPTUALIZING GENDER	3	(96)
CHAPTER 1 The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework	3	(41)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
CHAPTER 2 Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking	44	(26)
Joan Acker
CHAPTER 3 Some Reflection on Gender and Politics	70	(29)
Joan Wallach Scott
II. THE MACROSOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER	99	(94)
CHAPTER 4 Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State	99	(29)
Anette Borchorst
CHAPTER 5 Gender and the Global Economy	128	(33)
Valentine M. Moghadam
CHAPTER 6 Gender, Work, Who Cares?! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization, and Business as Usual	161	(32)
Lisa D. Brush
III. GENDER, DISCOURSE, AND CULTURE	193	(68)
CHAPTER 7 "Woman" as Symbol and Women as Agents: Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices	193	(29)
Susan Starr Sered
CHAPTER 8 Sex, Text, and Context: (In) Between Feminism and Cultural Studies	222	(39)
Suzanna Danuta Walters
IV. GENDER IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS	261	(104)
CHAPTER 9 Moving Beyond Gender: Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge	261	(24)
Patricia Hill Collins
CHAPTER 10 Gender and Sexuality in Organizations	285	(26)
Patricia Yancey Martin
David L. Collinson
CHAPTER 11 Gender, Family Structure, and Social Structure: Racial Ethnic Families in the United States	311	(30)
Anne R. Roschelle
CHAPTER 12 Just Do...What? Sport, Bodies, Gender	341	(24)
Shari L. Dworkin
Michael A. Messner
V. GENDERING THE PERSON	365	(108)
CHAPTER 13 Gender, Power Dynamics, and Social Interaction	365	(34)
Peter Glick
Susan T. Fiske
CHAPTER 14 Now You Can Choose! Issues in Parenting and Procreation	399	(17)
Barbara Katz Rothman
CHAPTER 15 Embattled Terrain: Gender and Sexuality	416	(33)
Judith Lorber
CHAPTER 16 Making Gendered People: Bodies, Identities, Sexualities	449	(24)
R. W. Connell
Index	473	(22)
About the Contributors	495